PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA

PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA operates as a cozy elementary campus in NEW YORK, New York, run under NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4. Current enrollment sits at 306 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4 runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 11,316 students. PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 8% Asian, 3% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above New York County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 40.4%; actual is 68.8%, +28.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for New York County put median household earnings sit near $103,931, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BILINGUAL BICULTURAL SCHOOL (THE), roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PS 83 LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA has fell 29%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 306 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 64% to 71% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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